GeekUp Leeds - July Roundup
A quick note to say thanks to everyone for another great GeekUp Leeds. The turnout was once again phenomenal, there being 40+ people there at peak (well, when I counted…). This month we had 2 talks, the first from Dave Verwer (from Shiny Development in Chester) on UJS, and the second from Dominic Hodgson (from Sticky Eyes in Leeds) on SEO, so big thanks to them. Thanks also to Rob for the intros, and Richard for organising the venue.
We’ve had a large amount of feedback from this month’s event and based on this we’ve decided to both slim down and fatten up the Leeds format to account for the audience being such a varied bunch. So we’re sliming down all talks to a strict, fast-paced, 20:20 style (6mins, 40secs each) but beefing the numbers up to three, having two pre-planned talks (Open Street Map & Eye Tracking) but leaving the third slot open to the audience to decide on the night which one is to be presented.
Rob will post the requirements for a 20:20 style presentation on the GeekUp wiki shortly but it’s essentially 20 slides, with 20 seconds per slide. We’re looking for some willing volunteers - the topic of your 20:20 can be anything you think people might learn something from and I recommend having some kind of geek-relevance too! Any un-used talks can roll-over to the next month’s GeekUp 
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